US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Was there such a thing as pre-modern suicide bombers? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.
Pretty sure a few samurai believed in the concept. You just need to dishonor yourself somehow, and suddenly, you decide strapping some gunpowder to your chest and running towards the enemy is a great way to redeem yourself.
 
Was there such a thing as pre-modern suicide bombers? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.
Before modern times? Off the top of my head fire ships come close, but the crew is supposed to ditch the ship once if is on fire and moving.

WW2 you see japs with antitank mines strapped to sticks that they would rush at the enemy with and the Soviets put bomb vests on dogs and tried to have them go under enemy tanks which is a little closer to modern suicide bombing tactics.
 
There actually does seem to be some odd disconnect with modern feminism and Muslim countries. Most Muslim countries have very strict laws relating to women, in terms of what they can wear, how they act in public and even how they interact with other women. Modern feminism is all about wanting to have power over ever aspect of society for the sake of pushing “equality” when in reality all this does is either waste time or needlessly enforcing what straight men can and can not do and say. In many ways modern feminism and the internet has destroyed the very concept of healthy relationships by creating an endless cycle of people searching for power and wealth and instead of actual meaningful relationships. Hoe this applies to Muslim countries is actually quite interesting becuase feminists are also apart of the general leftist movement and as such despite countries like Iran having strict laws about women they can’t actually voice their outcry against those laws becuase by doing so will have them be slandered as racists. So the modern fe it’s is forced to accept and even apologize for laws and rules that actively hurt women for the sake of multiculturalism and endless tolerance regardless of it makes any sense and if supporting said laws only will continue to actively harm women in those countires.
This has a much easier way of being simplified.
Women on average are social minded and have a fetish for "the foreign", thus making them uniquely susceptible to any retarded things brown people do.
 
Was there such a thing as pre-modern suicide bombers? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.
I was wondering that myself. I just knew that if I didn't add that qualifier someone would pull out some insane historical fact I've never heard of.

I believe the Ottomans and the Japanese Empire would strap pregnant slaves and recent mothers with dynamite, knowing they'd run to the enemy hoping to be saved and that the enemy would hesitate to kill them with ranged weapons. Saladin had his soldiers light themselves on fire during battle to intimidate the enemy, but they wore fireproof materials or something. That's the best I've got right now.
 
The modern jihadi martyr was conceived of in Syria where they marched unarmed goat headers across minefields to clear them, I believe. Adam Curtis covers it in The Power of Nightmares docu-journal series.

The ḥūr al-ʿayn are actually ageless beings, they only resemble 8 year old girls
We need an anime rating..
 
IIRC Iran invented the modern day suicide bombing

During the Iran Iraq war the Iranians rounded up young boys and old men and drive them to the front lines in school buses. On the busses they would be blessed by imams and told they were about to go to heaven. The old men and young boys would then leave the buses, form a line holding hands, and march into minefields to clear them for later attacks.
 
Was there such a thing as pre-modern suicide bombers? Not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious.
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I think since gunpowder was invented, people desperate enough have dared to used it to stop an enemy.
Chinks and soviets strapped dogs and willing volunteers with makeshift satchel charges to stop tank attacks.

If you go before gunpowder, you have stuff like Leonidas at Thermopylae fighting off 30k persians with 300 men, knowing he won't survive.

Heck, you're probably here because 30 thousand years ago, some brave guy from a neanderthal tribe decided he was going to be the decoy for a pack of sabertooths to buy time for the women and children of the tribe to escape.
 
There actually does seem to be some odd disconnect with modern feminism and Muslim countries. Most Muslim countries have very strict laws relating to women, in terms of what they can wear, how they act in public and even how they interact with other women. Modern feminism is all about wanting to have power over ever aspect of society for the sake of pushing “equality” when in reality all this does is either waste time or needlessly enforcing what straight men can and can not do and say. In many ways modern feminism and the internet has destroyed the very concept of healthy relationships by creating an endless cycle of people searching for power and wealth and instead of actual meaningful relationships. Hoe this applies to Muslim countries is actually quite interesting becuase feminists are also apart of the general leftist movement and as such despite countries like Iran having strict laws about women they can’t actually voice their outcry against those laws becuase by doing so will have them be slandered as racists. So the modern fe it’s is forced to accept and even apologize for laws and rules that actively hurt women for the sake of multiculturalism and endless tolerance regardless of it makes any sense and if supporting said laws only will continue to actively harm women in those countires.
Maybe it’s the physical comedy version of a Freudian slip, and some part of their psyche is admitting they SHOULD get the shit slapped out of themselves

I don’t recommend being the guy to test the theory though. We’ll just leave it as a hypothetical
 
Before modern times? Off the top of my head fire ships come close, but the crew is supposed to ditch the ship once if is on fire and moving.

WW2 you see japs with antitank mines strapped to sticks that they would rush at the enemy with and the Soviets put bomb vests on dogs and tried to have them go under enemy tanks which is a little closer to modern suicide bombing tactics.
The Japs did actually have straight up suicide bombers. Kamikaze pilots are suicide bombers.

Jap soldiers were also known to act wounded while holding primed grenades. waiting until Americans were walking past before blowing themselves up. this lead to the US taking no prisoners.
 
Observed Immigration Update -
Went to Denver for a week, great weather for panhandling. Swarms of illegal Honduran families are no where to be seen, didn't see single one of those illegal treat trucks that sell those orange pinwheel chips. Solitary white crack heads are now picking up the slack. Many illegals have left Denver, but the little mountain resort towns are still loaded with them, though they have jobs and aren't freeloading on the side of the road. It will be interesting when ICE starts moving on from big cities to smaller towns, we're only 13 out of 48 months into the presidency, all must go!
 
Let's go for the worst case scenario: a missile hits the Carriers or one of the big bases.
300 dead, 1000 thousand wounded total.
For Iran falling?,that's a relatively cheap price to pay, with Cuba about to fall, you have Trump singlehandedly defeating the 3 largest US adversaries in less than a year.
Trump has done what Clinton, 2 terms of bush and Obama failed to do despite promising so, he has done more damage to the US's enemies in a year, than 40.
 
Idk man, the left HAS stood up for every country on the planet that hates America

The finally aspect of their complete buck breaking will be when the democrats circle all the way around and defend Putin, which by now everyone knows they will if Trump criticizes him enough
I don't think the left would stoop that low to defend putin, but russia? surely.

Imagine a post putin world: where a technocratic pragmatic right wing dictatorship takes over, or somehow the anti-corruption pro EU liberals win the elections, they'd sweep everything under the rug, blame putin entirely on trump, despite him being in power since 1999 and start gushing about how evil russia turned their path towards enlightment whilst JD vance is throwing the US under the bus.

Also they don't need to defend them, just acknowledge in the first couple paragraphs how they are totally evil and fascist and terroristic and anti-democratic, but trump is worse for killing them or violating UN law and shit.
 
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